Questions to Hold with Casey Carroll

Welcome to the Questions to Hold podcast hosted by BWB founder, Casey Carroll. In a world that praises answers over questions, the act of holding a question is an act of resistance, presence and devotion. In this podcast, we explore the intersection of life’s biggest inquiries and our personal and professional worlds. Whose story are you telling? What impact are you having? Are you happy? Tune in for honest conversations with progressive leaders and entrepreneurs dedicated to questioning our institutions, igniting change, and provoking new possibilities. Join us for our next discussion.

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN: Unleashing your Great Work with Amanda Crowell

Join us for a conversation with Amanda Crowell (she/her), where we explore how to unleash your Great Work, and what it looks like to approach work as a path of curiosity, clarity, and collaborative momentum. Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, keynote speaker, and the author of Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, now in its 2nd edition. She’s also the creator of the Great Work Journal, host of the podcast Unleashing Your Great Work, and foun...

08-22
31:17

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN: How to Be With Change with Maren Gauldin

Join us for a rich conversation with Maren Gauldin (she/her), where we explore the landscape of change through the lens of tools such as the Enneagram, deep listening practices, and holistic approaches to transformation. Maren guides us on how to be with change even when change feels like the scariest thing we could do. Maren Gauldin is an organizational development consultant, a certified Enneagram coach, a parent, a partner, an advocate, and a community-tender who envisions a world wh...

06-16
38:44

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN: Honing your Courageous Story with Ahri Golden

Entrepreneur + Award-Winning Media Midwife Ahri Golden is a podcast series creator supporting wise visionary women entrepreneurs ready to bring their next level impact into the world. Golden is fascinated by being human and is deeply informed by stories and creative responses to the world that is unfolding within and around us. ​​Golden's experimental audio projects inspired from lived experience enlist documentary, music + memoir to create a more urgent human response to the roiling changes ...

05-28
39:15

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN: Building a Breathing Culture with Sarah Hutcherson

Sarah is the founder of Slo Breathworks and she combines years of training and experience in breathwork facilitation, yoga, sustainability, and leadership to offer mindful breathing experiences - workshops, walks, and seasonal containers - to integrate mindful breathing into daily life so busy doers can move from overwhelmed to empowered. While Sarah has hundreds of hours of trainings in the mechanics and physiology of breathing, it is the lived experience of consciously breathing when anxiet...

05-28
40:28

EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN: Looking to the Sky for Direction with Jocelin Martinez

Jocelin Martinez is a seasoned communications trainer and astrologer. Jocelin has facilitated thousands of successful sessions, providing expert advice on messaging and presentation skills to clients across industries like home and luxury goods, healthcare, beauty, and entertainment. She considered her 15-year career successful, but a meeting with an astrologer in 2016 introduced a new perspective and another professional practice. Her childhood curiosity with astrology began with Walter Merc...

05-28
39:50

Unpacking Partnership: Exploring the Enneagram with Maren Gauldin

Join us for a conversation with Maren Gauldin (she/her), where we explore the Enneagram and how it can be used to understand ourselves, build relationships with others, develop deeper partnerships, and enhance team dynamics. Maren Gauldin is an organizational development consultant, a certified Enneagram coach, a parent, a partner, an advocate, and a community-tender who envisions a world where all are able to discover and fulfill the depths of their potential. Maren leads Seeds to Wholeness...

07-20
38:08

Unpacking Partnership: Letting partnership evolve with Sally Ekus

Join us for a conversation with Sally Ekus (she/her), where we discuss what it means and looks like to let partnership evolve alongside our life and business needs and desires. Sally Ekus is a Senior Literary Agent at JVNLA where she spearheads The Ekus Group, a boutique culinary division specializing in cookbook and lifestyle titles. She represents a wide range of culinary, health, wellness, and lifestyle talent, from first-time cookbook authors to chefs, restaurant owners, professional foo...

07-02
36:41

Unpacking Partnership: On leaving a legacy & life's intentional decisions with Stephanie Schott

Stephanie Schott is the founder of Amplify, an organization committed to equipping companies with the mindsets and skills to navigate and thrive in today’s corporate environment. Join us for a conversation with Stephanie, where we discuss navigating the constantly changing terrain in our lives, and the impact of holding questions. We also discuss building in partnership (versus being an individual contributor), and the question Stephanie is holding around what it means to leave a legacy...

04-16
36:08

Unpacking Partnership: Finding Peace within Ourselves & Making Peace with Others with Brad Farris

Join us for a conversation with Brad Farris (he/him) where we discussed finding peace within ourselves to help make peace with others, and how this contributes to partnership. Brad Farris is an engineer turned leadership coach who specializes in helping creative agency owners unleash growth, in their agencies and themselves. He has 20 years of experience working with agency founders. As a result, he can quickly spot patterns and solve problems that stunt growth. Since its founding, Anchor Adv...

03-20
35:49

Unpacking Partnership: In the business of family & relationships with Maeghan Scott & Melodie Toby

In the business of family and relationships Join us for an honest discussion with Maeghan Scott and Melodie Toby, where we talk about running a family business and the importance of the relationships built along the way. Maeghan and Melodie are a mother-daughter team, running Right at Home of Essex County, providing in-home care to seniors and adults in Essex County, New Jersey. They are also celebrating 20 years in business this year. Established in 2004, Right at Home of Essex C...

03-15
42:10

Unpacking Partnership: How do Agility and Partnership Coexist Together? with Marti Konstant

Holding the question around what it means to be agile Join us for a conversation with Marti Konstant (she/her) exploring how agility and partnership coexist together, and the curiosities around the impacts of AI and unexpected relationships. Marti researches how people and organizations respond and adapt to change. Why do some resist change, while others prosper? As a workplace futurist and career strategist she has uncovered the one trait that helps you and your organization flourish i...

03-11
34:02

Questions to Hold Season Two: Unpacking Partnership

This year on the Questions to Hold podcast, we will kick off with the "Unpacking Partnership" Series. This collection of episodes will feature some of our mentors, partners, and collaborators, where we dive into some of the biggest questions and mysteries in partnership. In the first episode, BWB co-owners, Casey and Caitlin, celebrate and honor BWB’s 5 year business anniversary, and share why 2024 is the year they're going all in on partnership. In this episode you'll hear: what Case...

01-26
18:51

Being with the entirety of ourselves with Chaney Williams

Join us in an honest conversation with Chaney Williams (she/they) exploring how we can be in relationship with the entirety of ourselves, and what can happen when we have brave space to show up fully. Chaney Williams is a poet, full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specif...

01-26
32:21

Making space for the question: who am I in my community? with Samar Jade

Join us in an honest conversation with Samar Jade (they/them) exploring how we can be in relationship with the entirety of ourselves, and what can happen when we have brave space to show up fully. Samar Jade is an ensoulment doula - one who walks alongside you as you do the work to birth yourself. They provide support during the darkened areas of that journey to claiming your power, and help you discover how to nurture that which is ready to be witnessed. Samar is here as an oracl...

01-26
31:44

How do we balance motherhood and entrepreneurship? with Shanetta McDonald

Join us in an honest conversation with Shanetta McDonald (she/her) exploring the seasons of our life, taking care of ourselves as working mothers, and why it matters we control our own narratives. Shanetta McDonald is the founder of The Giselle Agency. An award-winning brand marketer with more than 14 years of experience in creating and executing awareness and revenue-driving programs in B2B and B2C industries, she's known for her ability to uncover compelling stories that challenge soc...

10-04
31:18

What do we have to risk to be reconnected? with Nanci Luna Jiménez

What do we have to risk to be reconnected? Join us in an honest conversation with Nanci Luna Jiménez (she/her) exploring why it is necessary to ground in our human goodness to end racism. Nanci Luna Jiménez has committed to her own healing for more than 30 years to be a transformative guide, heart-centered listener, and authentic companion for leaders and change-makers committed to racial healing and social justice. Since founding the Luna Jiménez Institute for Social Transformation in 1994, ...

09-27
41:50

What does it mean to be a living ancestor? with Stephanie Ghoston Paul

Join us in an honest conversation with Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) exploring what it means to be a living ancestor. Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) helps movement-makers bring to reality a radically transformed world through wholehearted coaching and consulting. With individuals that looks like self-care and boundaries work to help leaders balance their lives by coming back home to themselves. Within community, Stephanie holds space for collective healing through truth-telli...

09-12
47:17

Ageism, entrepreneurship and exit strategies with Georgette Pascale

Join us in an honest conversation with Georgette Pascale (she/her) exploring the highs and lows and the in betweens of successfully selling a business, and moving into a new chapter of entrepreneurship. Georgette (aka “G.”) is a bespoke, efficient personal business ally that assists solopreneurs and small businesses in any industry achieve their short term goals. A former CEO that thrives on connecting people, authenticity and helping entrepreneurs get from A to B. In this episode you’ll he...

05-11
33:52

Why do we separate our work selves from our home selves? with Deena Chochinov

Why do we separate our work selves from our home selves? Join us in an honest conversation with Deena Chochinov (she/her) exploring what a career as a professional “listener” has revealed about how to be a leader in the boardroom and the living room. Deena is a therapist, management consultant, and family enterprise advisor. She supports executives and senior teams in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on leadership coaching, talent management, and organizational developm...

04-26
35:41

How do we become sustained in our work? with Ayesha Walker

How do we become sustained in our work? Join us in an honest conversation with Ayesha Walker (she/her) exploring how through our work we can build sustainability not just for the organization, but also for ourselves, our families and our communities. Ayesha Walker is an exceptional mother, social entrepreneur, artist and teacher. She is an alchemist, creating opportunities for herself, family and community to transform pain into passion and empathy into action. She is the co-founder and...

04-26
35:29

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